Из интервью Уильяма Гибсона Локусу

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“"The cyberpunk mode of Neuromancer and earlier stories grew quite directly out of a gut-level discontent with almost all of the SF of the late '70s and early '80s; 'decadent' was too rich a word for that stuff -- I despised most of it. I had become, in my quiet way, quite acutely pissed off at what the pop form I'd loved intensely in the '60s, and that had nurtured me powerfully and directly as an adolescent, had become. I still had a ragged shelf of Bester, Delany, Ballard, old New Worlds, and I was using Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as a bookend, all reminding me of what science fiction had meant to me. Talking about this, now, I reconnect with that sense of militancy -- and, hey, it's pretty refreshing! One powerful irony of this, I suppose, is that I always saw the 'cyberpunk revolution' as a roots movement, rather than as something new.”